What are Your Characters Geeky About?

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I’m a university student and my classes for the fall semester began on Wednesday. My first class was Canadian Poetry, and before my professor told our class about her relationship with Canadian poetry, she said, “I’ll try not to cry.”

And that’s when I knew I’d love that class.

“Whatever you were geeky about in high school,” she told us, “That’s what I was like with Canadian poetry.”

Before I know anything else about a character, I know what they’re geeky about. It always reveals so much about them to me. For example, Callie in Building Forts is geeky about math, which fits with how she treated her life like a formula pre-Chase.

I love to see YA characters that are hormone crazy, but I love to see them being just as crazy about chemistry or photography or basketball or anything. I just think it reveals so much about them.

So, I’m curious: what are your characters geeky about? What does it say about them? Tell me in the comments, write a blog post, whatever you want, I’d just love to hear from you.